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This was a plot point in the 2019 Neal Stephenson novel Fall; or, Dodge In Hell. In an effort to prove information on the internet was unreliable a massive spam/defamation campaign was launched on a person -- to the point that the information was unbelievable and it was obviously fake.

In the novel, despite several attempts from different parties to encourage people to think more critically about what they read on the internet, highly sensational AI generated content radicalizes and stupefies the population.